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Parfait

Definition: Parfait

Parfait

Noun

1. Layers of ice cream and syrup and whipped cream.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "parfait" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

 

Crosswords: Parfait

English words defined with "parfait": parfait glass. (references)
Specialty definitions using "parfait": Landiere. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Parfait" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (accomplished, apple pie, faultless, flawless, implicit, in apple-pie order, okay, perfect, pristine, utter), Swedish (parfait).

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Modern Usage: Parfait

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Un flic presque parfait (1998)

Parfait amour! (1996)

Accord parfait (1988)

Parfait amour (1985)

Le Sculpteur parfait (1979)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Parfait

DomainTitle

Books

  • Dictionnaire du Parfait Cynique (reference)

  • Le Parfait Secretaire (reference)

  • Le tonnerre, intellect parfait (NH VI, 2) (reference)

  • Les degres du verbe: sens et formation du parfait en grec ancien (reference)

  • Livre de l'amour, du désir ardent, de l'intimité et du parfait contentement (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Parfait

Illustrations:
Parfait

More images...

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Photo Album: Parfait

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Un Mecanicien Trop Parfait. / [Honoré Daumier].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Parfait

The following table summarizes the usage of "parfait" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
ParfaitLast name40022,750
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Parfait

Expression using "parfait": parfait glass. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Parfait

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

parfait

52

parfait recipe

17

glasses parfait

14

croscill parfait

8

parfait tic

8

parfait strawberry

6

jello parfait

6

parfait plus que

5

fruit parfait

5

amour parfait

4

parfait yogurt

4

parfait raspberry spirea

4

body parfait

3

parfait recipe strawberry

3

glass parfait

3

cream ice parfait

3

jar le parfait

3

parfait picture strawberry

3

parfait scanlations tic

2

lemon parfait

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Parfait

Language Translations for "parfait"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

冷"点. (various references)

   

German

  

Brotaufstrich (paste, spread). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

είδοσ παγωτού. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

パノラマ写真 (palladium, panoramic photograph, Papa, papaya, paprika, papyrus, parachute, parachute skirt, paradigm, paradigm shift, paradise, paraglider, paragraph, parapsychology, paraquat, parasail, parasite single, parasol, Parathion, paratyphus, pavilion, Pavlov, performance, perfume, perfumer, pub, public, public acceptance, public corporation, public course, public domain, public house, public opinion, public relations, public school, public servant, public space, publicity, puff, puff sleeve, puppy). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

パフェ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arfaitpay

   

Romanian

  

parfeu. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

parfait. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Parfait

Derivations

Words beginning with "parfait": parfaits. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Parfait" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parafil, parait, Parati, parfeit, Parfit, Parlagi, parlait, Parvati, perficit, Perfitt, prait. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Parfait

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-f-i-p-r-t"

-2 letters: afrit, apart, atria, atrip, riata, tafia, tapir, tiara.

-3 letters: afar, airt, aria, atap, fair, fart, fiar, fiat, frap, frat, frit, pair, para, part, pita, prat, raft, raia, rapt, rift, tapa, tarp, trap, trip.

-4 letters: aft, air, ait, apt, arf, art, far, fat, fir, fit, par, pat, pia, pit, rap, rat, ria, rif, rip, tap, tar, tip.

-5 letters: aa, ai, ar, at, fa, if, it, pa, pi, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-f-i-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: parfaits.

 

+4 letters: pacificator, parfocality, profanation.

 

+5 letters: pacificators, prefabricate, profanations, transpacific.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Parfait


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 72 66 61 69 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .-    .-.    ..-.    .-    ..    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01110010 01100110 01100001 01101001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#114 &#102 &#97 &#105 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0072 0066 0061 0069 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50678472677586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Names: Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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